NON-STOP GAMING

Equip yourself with the MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards to improve your game. MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards are covered in full black camouflage with LED ambient lights and is packed with gaming features, making them the perfect weapon to dominate the battlefield.

Unmatched memory performance and stability

With traditional memory design the memory signals are often distorted by electromagnetic signals from other components, making the system perform slower or become unstable. MSI introduces DDR4 Boost technology with optimized traces and fully isolated memory circuitry. This design ensures the memory signals stay pure for optimal performance and stability.

Dominate the game with lowest latency

Get ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI® GAMING LAN, featuring carefully selected components to ensure the best online gaming experience without lag.

Gaming optimized bandwidth management

Dedicated to giving you the best online gaming experience with optimized traffic prioritization and low latency, MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive applications for online games.

MSI GAMING LAN Manager

Automatically prioritizes games above other applications

Allows you to change applications' traffic priority

Allows you to customize bandwidth for each application

Studio grade sound with AUDIO BOOST

With Audio Boost we're delivering the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. That way, you can enjoy breathtaking, crystal clear sound and music through 6-channel Audio or high impendence headphones and truly dominate the game.

Isolated Audio PCB WITH LED LINE

Audio Boost acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry to give you a more clear audio signal.

Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors

Separated Audio Layers

Equal and perfect sound quality for left & right channel audio through the use of seperated layers in the PCB.

Anti-popcorn Noise

Audio Boost protects your ears against annoying loud popping sounds when you plug devices in or out or turn your PC on/off.

5.1 Audio Jacks
7.1 via front

With high quality audio connectors you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.

Front Dedicated Headphone Out

Convenient use of the front panel audio output while retaining high quality amplified sound.

GAMING HOTKEY

Gaming Hotkey enables more functionality using your own keyboard. Simply assign functions to any key and launch your favorite games, load profiles with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!

Customize any shortcut on your keyboard

User friendly, easy to use application

1 key load up of your favorite game

TOTAL FREEDOM, MAXIMUM EASE

Easily program your most used commands to be executed with a single keystroke. You are free to choose any key you want.

Type-C with reversible design
Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 Gen1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.

2X FRONT USB 3.1 GEN1

With a clever placed USB 3.1 Gen1 front pin header, available on MSI motherboards, you can connect up to 2 USB 3.1 Gen1 devices directly to the front of your PC Chassis. This way you can easily enjoy fast USB speeds without having to use the hard-to-reach USB ports on the rear.

STEEL ARMOR: REINFORCED PCI EXPRESS SLOT

With the increased size and weight of modern high end graphics cards, traditional PCI Express slots often show signs of bending or even breaking. Meet STEEL Armor, strengthened PCI Express slots using more solder points to make sure you never have to worry about breaking off any of the slots.

PREVENT DAMAGE!
Worried about damaging the PCI-Express slot or your graphics card because of the weight?

OTHER BRANDS
NO STRENGHTENING

MSI® STEEL ARMOR
REINFORCED, HEAVY SOLDERED CONNECTIONS

ENHANCED CPU OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION

Onboard overcurrent protection prevents overcurrent and short-circuit damage of the CPU and other components. There shows a warning message let’s you know that overcurrent protection is activated for easier troubleshooting.

EASY DIAGNOSTIC

MSI EZ DEBUG LED is an easy troubleshooting tool built with 4 LEDs to indicate to CPU / Memory / VGA / Boot operation every time you boot up your system.

Run into trouble? Use the LEDs to easy identify the item causing problems.

SteelSeries Certified

Get ready to enjoy the best gaming experience with MSI & SteelSeries!

Enthusiast gaming gear brand SteelSeries has officially approved MSI GAMING motherboards as ‘SteelSeries Certified (SSC)’. This certification is based on the performance demands and stability of MSI GAMING motherboards and SteelSeries products. Your SteelSeries headset, mouse and other top quality gaming gear works best on MSI GAMING motherboards.

GAMING CERTIFIED

Our GAMING motherboards are tested in our gaming lab, internet cafes and together with the world’s best eSports players to make sure you get top performance and reliability in the world’s most popular games. Through 24-hour on- and offline game testing, MSI ensures the onboard network configuration, audio reception and FPS performance are tested and tuned to perfection for you to enjoy the best possible gameplay experience.

Only the motherboards that pass this test receive the GAMING CERTIFIED status and are considered true MSI® GAMING motherboards.

MILITARY CLASS 4 COMPONENTS

DARK CHOKE

Dark Choke uses the special core design and allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature with higher capacity and better power efficiency and stability.

SOLID CAP

With their aluminum core design and Japanese made quality, Solid CAPs are made for high-end design motherboard. Not only do Solid CAPs could provide lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), but also work firmly for over-10-year.

PUSH YOUR SSD HARDER WITH M.2

M.2 doesn’t need any power- or signal-cables and with a very small footprint M.2 is the storage connector of the future replacing traditional HDDs/SSDs.

SECURE AND RELIABLE UEFI BIOS SOLUTION

This next generation UEFI BIOS is completely rebuilt and features a plethora of system builders’ favorite options. From M-Flash for easy BIOS flashing to advanced data protection & system security, CLICK BIOS hands you the tools to fully protect and optimize the system.

Through smart design and optimizations for Windows 10, CLICK BIOS is faster than ever. By reducing the use of graphics in the UEFI shell, it boots faster, reacts faster and adds a smooth experience when changing settings. Smart categorizing of functions and settings make this the easiest BIOS you’ll ever see.

Next gen UEFI BIOS

Perfect for system builders

Easy to use

Windows 10 optimized

Packed with security features

GAMING DEVICE PORT

MSI Gaming Device Port is optimized to deliver the best connectivity for high end gaming mice to fully utilize its speed. You can customize your mouse’ DPI to change accuracy and program macro combinations using the easy to use Mouse Master software to perform multiple commands with just one click.

Gaming benefits

More responsive, faster reactions

Customizable mouse settings

Customizable mouse accuracy (DPI)

Program macros for multiple actions in 1 click

Smoother gameplay

Technical benefits

3x more gold than regular connectors

10x longer lifetime when plugging/un-plugging

Prevents oxidation

OBS STREAMING SOFTWARE

Share your gaming achievements with the world! Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is world’s most popular open source software for video recording and live streaming. Show your friends your gaming progress live.

Optimized video quality

OBS records videos using small file size,but with perfect image and sound quality, without lag.

Easy to share

Live streaming to your favorite video sharing websites such as Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and many more.

Webcam supported

Multiple profiles

Add different profiles, each of them with its own settings. Easy to use OBS for anyone, in any situation.

Plenty of plugins

Allowing developers to create their own unique plugins and complete control of their streaming experience.

GAMING APP

Outperform your competition with the MSI® GAMING APP which allows control of your Graphics Card’s boost.

Simply select your preferred mode with the click of a button:

/ Silent / Gaming / OC /

ON-SCREEN SPEED & TEMPERATURES

Real-time monitor GPU Core, DRAM Frequency, GPU & CPU Temperatures and much more, in game or in other fullscreen applications, customizable to your preference.

CPU-Z
MSI GAMING
EDITION

MSI has worked closely with CPUID to develop this special edition of CPU-Z featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon. Use CPU-Z to gather key information on the main devices of your system, such as your CPU speed, Memory speed and timings, motherboard BIOS version and much more.

SSD not fast enough? Try MSI RAMDisk!

Get an unlimited RAMDisk for free (worth $35) with MSI GAMING motherboards. RAMDisk allows you to create a virtual drive from your system memory, enabling speeds up to 25x faster than a modern SSD. You can load complete games, speed up your browser or your page file significantly increasing system performance! You even increase your SSD's lifespan by using RAMDisk as it reduces unnecessary read and write operations to your SSD.

Speed up system performance

Speed up games, apps and browser

Increase SSD lifespan

25xFaster

$35Value

Connectivity

Be sure to take full advantage of all the GAMING weapons by connecting your devices to the optimized ports.

Keyboard/Mouse combo port

VGA port

HDMI port

LAN port

Audio Connectors

USB 2.0 ports

DVI-D port

USB 2.0 ports

USB 3.1 Gen1 ports(1* Type C)

All images and descriptions are for illustrative purposes only. Product specification, function, and appearance may vary based on different GPU. For detailed specifications, please consult the product specifications page.